Ahmed Khadr

Ahmed Khadr (1 March 1948-2 October 2003) was a financier of al-Qaeda from Egypt. Initially the leader of several charity organizations, he later became a close associate of Osama bin Laden, and his young son Omar Khadr was captured by the US Army at the age of 15 while bearing arms against them. Khadr was killed by Pakistan in 2003.

Biography
Ahmed Khadr was born on 1 March 1948 in Cairo, Egypt to a family of Sunni Muslims, but he later moved to Canada and graduated from the University of Ottawa. During the Soviet-Afghan War, Ahmed Khadr worked with charitable organizations that helped refugees from Afghanistan, including agricultural projects and setting up schools for orphans. He was also responsible for setting up seven medical clinics at refugee camps in Pakistan. Later, Khadr joined al-Qaeda, and he was the highest-ranking Canadian member of the organization. In 1999 the United Kingdom added his name to a list of al-Qaeda members, and he was suspected of being a main financier of the terrorist group. His son Omar Khadr was only 15 years old when he was captured during the Afghanistan War after being shot in a firefight, and Ahmed Khadr fled to a South Waziristan safehouse in Pakistan.

On 2 October 2003, hundreds of Pakistani security forces closed in on the safehouse and found Khadr, his son, and other militants in the area. His son was paralyzed by a bullet, and Khadr was killed in the doorway of the safehouse. He was initially believed to have survived, but DNA tests on Khadr proved that he had been killed.